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Tony on Search Question

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:55:32 +0000

I'd like to know if your plugin or something that I can use to enhance searching by including NON standard WP tables. I've seen some other search plugins, but non of them do this:

In other words, I have some custom mysql tables that run inside my wordpress DB…I'd like for the wordpress search to also search(and display results) from those tables also.

The tables are using pages with short codes.

Help?

Thanks!

Samuel on using this plugin to us WP search to look in downloads manager

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:50:20 +0000

Oh :-(

Thanks for your reply anyway

Jean-Luc on using this plugin to us WP search to look in downloads manager

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:53:27 +0000

The way this plugin works will not help you for searches in other tables. Sorry.

Samuel on using this plugin to us WP search to look in downloads manager

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:00:24 +0000

Hi!

Do you think that this plugin could be adapted to use the WP search engine to search in tables of some plugins?

I would like to use this for searching in the downloads manager plugin that I use in some blogs.

Best regards,

Samuel.

Jean-Luc on Search Page: doesnt works for me

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:07:07 +0000

Hi,

I looked at your website and I don't understand the problem.

The search URL's are correctly built and searches work. I tried to search for three-dimensional, mistakes, approaches,... and, as far as I can see, they return valid results.

When searching for non-existing words, I got "Not Found. Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here." which is an acceptable way of saying that the search term does not exist within the website.

murtaza on Search Page: doesnt works for me

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:04:28 +0000

I have a search form in my theme by default:

searchform.php —-

<form method=”get” id=”searchform” action=”<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>” <span style=”padding:7px 0px 0px 250px; margin:0px 0px 0px 0px”></span>
<h2 class=”h4″><input type=”text” name=”s” id=”s” value=”<?php echo wp_specialchars($s, 1); ?>”/><input type=”image” class=”input” src=”<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/search.gif” value=”submit”/></h2></form>

———-

and search field displayed in my index page:

index.php —

<div class=”search_bg”>
<div id=”search”>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . “/searchform.php”); ?>
</div>
</div><img src=”<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/spacer.gif” alt=”" align=”top” style=”width:100px; height:18px”/>

<br /><br /><br />

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class=”head_bg”>
<div class=”table2″>
<div class=”table_row2″>
<div class=”left2″>
<div class=”head”>
            <h2 class=”h2″><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
           </div>
</div>

i activated your plugin: it says page not found

plz check http://www.paintonmycanvas.com and do the search : as every thing is relevant to pages and only one post.

waiting for your help

thankyou

murtaza habib

Jean-Luc on Should there be a searchbox?

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:39:34 +0000

Good to see that Search Pages now works in your blog !

In order to make the word "Search" appear within the search bar, you need to add value="Search" within the "input" line of the search form.

The existing "Search" button will disappear if you remove the "input" line containing type="submit" value="Search" .

And I don't know from where the two little black dots are coming.

These new questions are out of the scope of this forum, but I hope that my partial answers will help you anyway.

Keith on Should there be a searchbox?

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:38:26 +0000

I found the search form code in my Nightlife theme... it is hidden in the Style.css file. See code below.

I realize my question is above an beyond your plugin at this point, however I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how to get rid of the "Search" button on my search GUI.. alternatively, I would like to simply have the text "Search" in my input field... and require people to hit enter to process the search. This would make it look a lot cleaner.

In addition, there are two little black dots to the left of my input field and two little black dots below the current "Search" button... any idea how I can rid of these?

Thanks again.

/************************************************
* Search Form *
************************************************/

#searchdiv {
margin: 0px;
padding 0px;
}

#searchform {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
overflow: hidden;
}

#s {
width: 190px;
background: #EFEFEF url(images/search.gif);
color: #333333;
font-size: 11px;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
padding: 3px;
margin: 8px 0px 0px 10px;
border: 1px solid #C0C0C0;
}

Jean-Luc on Should there be a searchbox?

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:23:34 +0000

search_pages.php (from the plugin) is not supposed to replace search.php (from the theme):

searchform.php (from the theme) adds a searchbox to the page;
search.php (from the theme) creates a page with search results;
search_pages (from the plugin) changes the way WordPress searches.

In my previous post, I suggested that you replace searchform.php in your /wp-content/themes/nightlife/ directory by the version of searchform.php that you will find in your /wp-content/themes/default/ directory.

Does this work better ?

Keith on Should there be a searchbox?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:31:12 +0000

Thanks for your quick response.

I tried renaming search_pages.php to search.php and replacing the original search.php file. In turn, I uploaded the file to the server and added the widget to my sidebar. However, interestingly the search GUI looks the same as the original. Therefore I will assume I did something wrong.

Any other suggestions? I am using Wordpress 2.5 and the Nightlife theme. http://www.optimizedexecutive.com/

I will leave the current search widget online so you can see how poor it looks.

Thanks again.

Jean-Luc on Should there be a searchbox?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:06:48 +0000

Hi,

There could be a compatibility issue with your theme. Can you temporarily replace the searchform.php of your theme by the one from the default theme and try again ?

If this does not help, let me know what theme you are using and under what version of WordPress.

Keith on Should there be a searchbox?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:00:45 +0000

Thanks for creating this plugin.

I am having the same problem as noted above. In turn, I am having a difficult time trying to understand your solution. I would greatly appreciate it if you could provide a Dummies Version.

FYI - My theme has a search.php file. I have Search widget option, however, I do not like the way it appears / functions. Hence why I am trying to utilize your plugin / widget.

I have dowloaded your file search_pages.php and uploaded it to my Plugins directory on my server. In turn, I have activated your Plugin... however, it is not appearing on my blog.

I tried adding the code
you suggested above...

<?php
include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php');
?>

... to my l_sidebar.php file and uploaded it... however, nothing has changed.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Jean-Luc on Search results like in Google

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:23:34 +0000

Thank you for your encouragement. ;-)

The way the search results are presented depends on your theme. You can also edit your theme in order to display the search results in your prefered way.

Note that the standard WordPress search tool - which is used by our plugin - always sorts results by date. The latest pages and posts appear first.

Ido Fishman on Search results like in Google

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:15:04 +0000

Thanks for the plugin, just installed it on several of my sites that uses WP as a CMS.

Any change you know how to present the search results as just the title so it would look more like real google search results?

Jean-Luc on Search Pages + 2.3.3 + Windows + Cutline

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:44:03 +0000

Hi Buzzkill,

This web site is based on WP 2.3.3 and the plugin works fine and I doubt that Windows is causing the problem. I guess that Cutline doesn't like Search Pages...

I have no experience with Cutline, but I see on their site that there are different releases and versions of the theme with different number of columns. What version are you using ?